518 Assembly Proceedings, May — June 1676.

Liber
W H &L

the Cattle Horses & Mares & Houshould Stuffe To Peter
Iarboe the three hundred Acres of Land bought or Exchanged
with Henry Aspinall by S^t Lawrence Creeke in Brittains Bay
with one Negro & an Equall share of the Cattle Horses and
Mares & Moueables To Henry larboe five hundred Acres in
the Branches of S^t Lawrences Creeke one Negro & an Equall
share of the Cattle Horses & Mares & Moveables as aforesaid
To Mary larboe his Daughter the Silver Tankard & his Silver
Spoones one Negro & an Equall share of Cattle Horses Mares
& Household Stuffe or moveables To Mary larboe his wife the
man with one Eye & the Old Woman Called Cove & Ahon by

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name & an Equall share of the Moveables & onely the mare
Bonnie & her Colt of the Horses his own Rideing horse to be
kept undivided for the use of the Plantacon Uppon which Plan-
tacon his wife should Hue dureing her life if shee pleased He
desired the Chancellor & the said Iohn Iourdain to mannage
the Estate of his Children To Edward Barbier he gaue a Young
fillie & a heifer whether he Staid with his wife & Children
uppon the Plantacon or not And he the said larboe then bid
the said lourdain to take notice that this was his will in Case
god almighty should take him before he Could make his will in
writeing and then said that the next morning he would send for
M^r Edward Clarke to putt his will in writeing and to M^r. ffoster
to give him the last Sacraments And likewise declared That in
Case any of his Children dyed before they came to age that
his will was that that Childs part should be Equally divided
between the mother and the Rest of his Surviveing Children
And in Case all his Children dyed before they come to age he
gave his whole Estate to his wife after which and before he the
said larboe could putt his said will in writeing the said larboe
dyed & left his two Younger Sonnes in strict rigour of Law
to the mercy of their elder Brother In tender Consideracon
therefore of the distressed Condicon of the said Younger
Brothers & as a reward of the faithfull Services of the said
Leivtenant Collonell John larboe to your Lordshipps father of
noble memory & to your selfe allwayes performed Your Peti-
coners doe humbly pray that itt may be Enacted And Bee itt
Enacted by the Right Hon^ble the Lord Proprietary by and with
the aduice and Consent of the upper and lower houses of this
present Generall Assembly & the Authority of the same That
the Respective devises of the said three hundred Acres of
Land to Peter larboe & of the said five hundred acres of Land
to Henry larboe in the said Nuncupative will of the said Leiv-
tenant Collonell John Iarboe Contained shall vest the said
Lands in the said Peter & Henry Jarboe & their heyres re-
spectively as fully and Effectually to all intents and purposes
as if the said will had dureing the life time of the said Leiv^t